Carl Higbie, in an interview with Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) focused on the assault weapons ban passed by the House earlier in the day, showed a video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) criticizing the methods that “some completely irresponsible people” use to train their young children in the use of firearms. Higbee took offense with her comments. “I’d say it’s about a hundred years ago, these so-called toddlers and 8, 9, 10-year-olds used to carry guns to school as a completely normal thing in many parts of the country — and probably more recently than before. One hundred years. No mass shootings in schools, no problem,” Higby claimed sweepingly, with which Steub agreed. Higbie, who worked for a Super PAC that supported Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, also bragged about teaching his 9-year-old how to use an AR-15. “Do you think guns, as Nancy Pelosi says, are really the problem?” asked the Iraq war veteran and Connecticut congressional candidate in 2014. “Of course they’re not the problem,” replied Steube, who, as a sign of his commitment to the Second Amendment, couldn’t help but show off his gun collection during a House Judiciary Committee hearing last month on gun reform. weapons. Steube then compared firearms to cars and cooking appliances. “Should we ban vehicles because they kill people?” asked. “We need to ban the pressure cookers that Boston [Marathon] bomber used because they used them to kill people? No, this is just a tool and instrument used by terrorists, murderers and criminals to commit their crimes.”
